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ILLIT’s Wonhee Prettier & More Innocent than Son Ye-jin? Media Article Sparks Huge Debate
An article comparing ILLIT’s Wonhee and actress Son Ye-jin is drawing massive attention due to its controversial title.
On May 3, a topic titled “ILLIT’s Wonhee Prettier & More Innocent than Son Ye-jin” was published on the Korean forum “theqoo”. The topic, which mentioned an article with the same title, published by Korean media site MK News, has since garnered over 60,000 views and 700 comments.
It is known that the mentioned article reported on ILLIT’s Wonhee becoming the 2024 model for the sports drinks brand Pocari Sweat.
However, the controversial title, which compares ILLIT’s Wonhee and actress Son Ye-jin, has enraged a lot of netizens, leading to a huge debate on “theqoo”. Particularly, Many believed that HYBE’s “media play” is going too far regarding ILLIT.
Below are some comments from netizens:
- Wow HYBE must have spent a lot of money…
- They even dared to use Son Ye-jin’s name like this? People have got eyes, you know
- Isn’t this going too far? Are then intentionally trying to draw criticism towards Wonhee?
- Why are they even trying to compare her with Son Ye-jin? There’s no relation at all
- Not even close to Son Ye-jin’s toes…
- Either HYBE is trying to get noise marketing for ILLIT or the reporters are itching to stir up trouble…
Source: theqoo
